Best of: Inside the stealth startup making zero-emission steel
Zero: The Climate Race
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How to Electrify Iron Making Without Having Emissions
Investors have given the company 80 million dollars to develop a process for making carbon-free steel. Using widely available lower-grade ores and shifting the operating temperature of the process from 1600 degrees to 60 degrees Celsius, it will make pure iron. The cheapest form of zero-carbon electricity is intermittent solar and wind today, period. And your process has no fire attached to it. In fact, you could touch it.
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